The Queue: Bacon the friendly lizard

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Who’s the sweetest giant whomping spiked vaguely-bacon-colored lizard thing on Azeroth? That’s a rhetorical question, I tamed him yesterday and I’m keeping him forever, thank you. Let’s answer some Queue questions!

It has nothing to do with whether or not it’s a flying mount, and everything to do with where the mount is created and learned. Since the mount was created in a new expansion, the requirement asks you to have all applicable, non-expansion bound skill levels first. Note that it doesn’t require Cold Weather Flying from Wrath, a Flight Master’s License from Cataclysm, or Wisdom of the Four Winds from Mists, because it doesn’t have anything to do with either of those expansions. It just requires you to have the highest riding level available.

Honestly? I don’t think so. I think I will enjoy leveling characters through Warlords content on their way to whatever level we’re set for next, because the leveling experience in Warlords was pretty fun. But I don’t really feel the same kind of wistful pang of “Man, I’m really going to miss this place” that I felt in Pandaria, not in the least. I don’t feel attached to the characters or the NPCs.

To give an example — in Mists of Pandaria I was very upset with the idea of our leaving Dog behind at our farms in Halfhill. Did Dog do anything remotely interesting? Not really. But the story behind getting him, the quests we did to help the poor little guy out were so well done that I really felt attached to him, and didn’t want to see him go. He followed us to our garrisons, which I was really happy about, and I make sure to give him a /pet every time I walk by my Herb Garden.

I don’t feel like that, I don’t have that feeling with a single one of Draenor’s cast of characters. Not a single one. The names might be familiar, but none of them have done enough to form that sense of attachment that one silly little dog out in the fields of Halfhill managed to do in a handful of quests during a rep grind.

The shipyard is a little confusing for me right now, but that’s mostly because I haven’t exactly had a lot of time to buckle down and dive into Tanaan full force just yet. I imagine I’ll get a lot of that done this weekend. Tanaan itself is great so far, in that nebulous I definitely haven’t seen everything there is to see yet kind of way. It’s a huge zone, and I’ve still got plenty of exploring to do.

Likely it’s just as you said — this is just one of those things that didn’t carry through from one version of Draenor to the next, like Garrosh’s existence.

It’s not a spoiler to say that the Burning Legion is most definitely planning to attack our Azeroth again. They’ve never really stopped attacking it, to be fair. For some reason, Azeroth is something the Legion really, really wants — either to claim, or to destroy, and nothing we’ve done is really going to stop the Legion from wanting to do either. It could be argued that we’ve only fostered the Legion’s interest, because we just keep getting stronger.

The Twisting Nether overlaps everything in existence. Just because we’ve destroyed one portal doesn’t mean another won’t appear. The Legion has plenty of methods for getting things done, and they’re not about to just leave Azeroth be. As far as Gul’dan goes — we don’t know how he got that information, but it’s likely that someone in the Legion told him what was going on at some point.

Yep! You only have to do the Draenor Pathfinder achievement once, and it’s automatically unlocked for all your alts.

That’s it for today’s Queue — if you have any questions you’d like to see answered, be sure to leave them in the comments below!